The beloved poem about "the night before Christmas" includes a reference to Santa Claus smoking a pipe, with the smoke curling around his head.

But the New York Post reported that Canadian author Pamela McColl wrote her own version that eliminates the verses.

The newspaper reported that McColl has received criticism from people such as Nicholas Trolli, president of the Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas, who said that the "change is not officially sanctioned by the North Pole."

Deborah Caldwell-Stone of the American Library Association told the New York Post that the changes could be compared with an Alabama publisher's purging of "indecent" language in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

The poem, widely attributed to Clement Moore, was first published anonymously on Dec. 23, 1823, in the Sentinel newspaper.

The New York Post reported that McColl has spent $200,000 of her own money to print 55,500 copies of her version.

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